Improvement in toilet-stands



W. MOCONNELL.

TOILET-STAND.

No.17v6,65.9 I I Patented Apri125,1876.

NJUFRS. FHQTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON, D. C.

WILLIAM MGOONNELL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENTlN TOILET-STANDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 176,659, dated April 25, 1876; applicationliiled March 9, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM McOoNNELL, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented an Improved ToiletStand, of which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to construct a neat, convenient, and portable toilet-stand; and this object I attain in a manner which I will now proceed to describe, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective View of my improved toiletstand Fig. 2, a sectional plan of the sameon the line 1 2; and-Figs. 3and 4 detached sectional views of difi'erent parts of the stand. v

The body A of the stand has an inclined front, to which is adapted a door, B, the interior of the body being separated into numerous compartments for containing various toilet articles. The stand may be mounted upon a suitable base or support, or mayhave a flat bottom, so as to be placed on a table.

On the opposite edge of the door B are pins a,adapted to longitudinal grooves 11, formed in the opposite sides near the bottom of the bod y A, these grooves being open at the rear, A

and terminating at the front in short vertical slots d. (See Fig. 3.) When the door Bis closed against the inclined front of the body, its lower edge rests in a curved recess, a, in the bottom of the stand, and its pivots a are in the short vertical slots above referred to. ()n turning the door down to a horizontal position it may be pushed inward into a recess between the bottom of the stand and a partition, 6, the pivot-pins a, sliding in the grooves 12. By thus disposing of the door the user of the toilet-stand is enabled to conveniently stand or seat himself with his face opposite and near to the glass D, which is hung to the standards E in the manner best observed in Figs. 2 and 4, by pins ff projecting from the opposite frames of the glass, which pins are adapted to slots 9 formed in the inner edges of the standards and extending upward through the top, so that, when desirable, the glass can be readily removed from its bearings and adjusted against the front of the stand. To the top of the stand, in the rear of the supports E for the glass, are secured three gas pipes, z, 45 and i connected together by an ordinary T-joint, the pipe 6 communicating, by means of a flexible tube, m, with any adjacent gas-burner, and the pipes i and i which are furnished with the usual tips, extending beyond the sides of the stand so as to afford convenient lights. The stand may be made as ornamental as the taste of the manufacturer may suggest, and is so light in its construction that it can be readily carried from place to place.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination of the stand A, having" receptacles for toilet articles, and having supports for a lookingglass, with the cover B pivoted to and capable of sliding within the stand, all substantially as set forth.

2. The glass D, having pinsff, adapted to corresponding slots 9 g in the supports E, so as to be readily withdrawn, substantially as described; 7

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

W. MGOONNELL.

Witnesses:

' HARRY HoWsoN, J r.,

"HARRY SMITH. 

